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Field system

Port, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Port, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Port
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.83436, -6.26689
SMR number
LH019-014003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark ditches of a fairly regular field system covering about 30 acres (c. 12ha) are visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). They form fairly large fields (dims c. 100m x c. 50m) and are defined by single ditch features. Some of the ditches run nearly parallel with existing field banks, and the fields are probably 18th century in date. The possible barrows (LH019-014001-; LH019-014002-) (Buckley 1987) are within the area but are not visible.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

References

Buckley V. M. 1987a Newly discovered cropmarks near Port, Co. Louth. Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 21, 290-3

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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